Hi!

First, I want to apologize for the long delays of SP2 and VCP and for the reduced support activity during in the last time. A number of unplanned changes occurred in my life, which kept me really busy, but in no way this should be any apology for the problems stated before. Anyway, now my daily business has calmed down, life is more or less stable again .-). The customer support and future developments will be done again in the reliable way as it is known from Digital Aviation. Additionally, we try to increase active the number of persons in the support forum, to be more independent of individuals.

But the last half year also brought some advantages for the Fokker product; I finished a jet type rating and now try to transfer as many experiences as possible into our Fokker SP2 and future Digital Aviation products, to enhance realism.

 

 

DA Fokker Fonts:

 

Some of you experienced problems during the installation of Fokker fonts. The type of fonts supplied, can not be installed automatically on some windows systems. Flight1 is doing the installer software and they are really professional on that. Steve Halpern (President of Flight1 Software) told me the reason is unknown, in such a case only manual installation of the fonts helps. All fonts are available at our Download section, with manual installation description here:

 

http://www.digital-aviation.de/forum/viewtopic.php?f=51&t=6060

 

DA Fokker Box:

 

In February, the DA Fokker Box was released. The boxed edition includes exactly the same version as is available for download. Additionally you get a printed documentation and a cockpit video DVD of real Fokker flight operation (ITVV).

 

DA Fokker Virtual Cockpit:

 

Currently, I try to define a release date for the Fokker virtual cockpit, which will be published here as soon as possible. Let me make two things clear: First, there WILL be a virtual cockpit and second, it WILL be free (I heard rumours saying that we would charge for it).

 

DA Fokker Multicrew:

 

There were sames changes in the Windows network handling, which caused problems to establish a connection on quite a few systems. This was solved by a patch that we made available in the download section of our forums a few weeks ago. Of course this patch will be included in SP2. Other problems of Mutlicrew are not addressed in SP2. In LAN connections it works flawless, internet connections may have troubles. I will stay on that of course, I think about a new concept.

 

DA Fokker Service Pack 2:

 

SP2 is finally complete and currently in testing. I hope to be able to send it to Flight1 very soon so they can create an installer for it. The release will follow a few days after the installer is done. The service pack can be used for both, the download and CD version of the DA Fokker.

 

SP2 contains following bugfixes and new features:

 

New features:

• The Fokker is now able to support the Navigraph navigation database. Airport/Navaid/Waypoint/Airway/SID/STAR/approaches and approach transitions are available, by using the Digital Aviation Cheyenne Navdata set.
  
• Copilot checks and calls out speed before selecting flaps and gear.
• The load editor will now consider the CG movement of fuel, but the new version will be supplied separately in the Download section
• Flight dynamics are revised
• FMC supports now keyboard entries

 

Bugfixes:

• a number of small bugs[/list]
• mouse areas are corrected(WXR
• errors in the speed tape corrected
• engine high vibration in cold temperatures fixed
• Some FMC bugs fixed
• phantom part in the F100SD model removed
• TCAS problems solved
• better diagnostics (logfile)
• flightplan import/export problems solved
• multicrew connection problems solved, see download section, patch is already available

 

Some screenshots showing the new navdata support:

 

departure from Zurich runway 28:

 

departure from Palma de Mallorca runway 06L with DME ARC:

 

arrival Frankfurt/Main runway 07L using PSA07 transition

 

arrival Frankfurt/Main runway 25L using PSA transition and missed approach ending in CHA holding

 

 

Regards

Florian

Hans Fokker 70/100 Fokker SP2

Hi,

As well as the rest of the team have started in their specifc area of expertise, I have started to work on the flight dynamics of the CRJ700/900. The initial phase is the collection of data on the aircraft. The planes manufacturer web site is a starting point and you can find on the site of Bombardier (www.bombardier.com) some background information on the development of the larger models as evolution of the smaler CRJ100/200. You can also find there details in the specification section which give you an overview on the different models (700/705/900 and 1000) which they offer and these are many different ones for the potential customers around the world.

And so do we look forward to capture with this development the majority of used CRJ types by some of the major airlines and their preferred configuration, so that flight simmers around the world will enjoy our simulation, once it is finished.

Looking at all the different configuration of ER and LR, we opted for the ER versions of 700/705/900. For those models we have the necessary data available, so that I could start to write the basic configuration of geometry, weights, engines, tank arrangements into the FS files. I use to collect all information I have of a plane into a big excel tabel and can do there also some basic calculations like the inertia of the plane on all 3 axis.

So much for today and I hope to bring you news from that area of the development work over the next couple of month as we go forward.

Alexander – the flight dynamics guy

metzgergva CRJ 700/900 CRJ Development, Flight Dynamics

Welcome to our new website. It was about time for new content but updating the old page was just to time-consuming. So we decided to move to a blog-like website based on Wordpress which can be easily updated by any member of our development team.

The website is not the only thing that changed at Digital Aviation. First, we’d like to thank Marcel Felde, who left us some time ago, for his great work on the Do-27 and Katana.

We also got some new team members who joined us for the CRJ project.

Robin Bilgil (UK) – best known for his work with B&W Design (check Avsim.com for their repaints of the PMDG 747). He’s going  to do the 2D Panels and virtual cockpit textures on the CRJ.

Nick Landolfi (USA) – he’s responsible for the virtual cockpit of the CRJ. He’s also part of the development team for the combat flight simulator “Fighter Ops” and will soon launch his own FSX scenery project “November Lima Simulations”.

Mister X – an anonymous aircraft designer, well known for his top-notch work. We won’t mention his name yet, but rest assured: you all know him and he’s one of the best in the business.

Other members of the team are Alexander M. Metzger for the flight dynamics as well as Florian Praxmarer and Hans Hartmann for the programming part.

More information on the CRJ project will be posted here as development continues. Please make sure to check out the CRJ page on this website.

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